Color Through Modern Art

by Kacey Evans

Paul Czanne, Still Life with Apples and Pears,1885-87, Oil on canvas
17 5/8 x 23 1/8 in. (44.8 x 58.7 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Vassily Kandinsky, Summer Landscape (Houses at Murnau; Study for "Houses on

a Hill"), 1909, oil on paperboard,
33 x 45 cm, Italian and other European Art
(Scala Archives)
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Mark Rothko,
Untitled, 1960,
oil
on canvas, 69 in. x
50 1/8 in. (175.26
cm x 127.33 cm),
San Francisco
Museum of Modern
Art (SFMOMA)

Barnett Newman, The Wild,1950,

Oil on canvas, 7' 11 3/4" x 1 5/8" (243
x 4.1 cm), The Museum of Modern Art:
Painting and Sculpture
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Giacomo Balla,
Street Light
1909,oil on
canvas, height:
125 cm,
Minneapolis
College of Art and
Design Collection
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Dan Flavin, 1977, pink,

green, blue, and yellow
fluorescent light, 8' square
across the corner,
Contemporary Art (Larry
Qualls Archive)